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The US Patent Office salutes "inventors & entrepreneurs who have dared to innovate in ways that serve our country, and protect and enable the men and women who protect our liberties."
On D-Day, June 6, 1944, more than 135,000 Allied troops landed on the beaches of Normandy in northern France under enemy fire - a war strategy enabled through innovation.
The success of the landing, known as the largest seaborne invasion in history and which lead to the defeat of Nazi Germany, depended heavily on New Orleans shipbuilder Andrew Jackson Higgins and his innovative landing craft, vehicle, personnel (LCVP) boats. Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower recognized as essential to the war's strategy.
@usarmymuseum has one of the last remaining Higgins boats from the Normandy invasion on display.
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